Cycling the Bay Area & Stories from the Garden

Thank you Mr. Squirrel…

…without your motivation, I probably would not have moved my strawberry planter indoors (don’t worry, I still left two out there for you to enjoy!). The move indoors seems to have created an unintended ‘greenhouse’ of sorts, and my strawberries are starting to fill in and ripen quite nicely.

Climbing up on Strawberry Sill

I have been able to harvest about seven strawberries (enjoyed three this weekend) to date, and they are delicious! I love strawberries, and the promise of lots more sit on my window sill ripening and growing. I also moved a smaller planter indoors which contains another strawberry plant, and that little fellow is also growing a couple of nice berries! Yay!!!

The 2nd Strawberry planter indoors

More strawberries, Mmmmm!!

The patio container garden welcomed a few new additions, a friend gave me am ‘ Isis ‘ Cherry Tomato plant, and I re-purposed the planter which contained the Celeriac (celery root), as I just don’t see myself actually using the celery root in a meaningful way. That planter is just too valuable of garden real estate to put toward growing something that I am not happy with. I replaced the celery root with a mix of perennials, including; Snowflake creeping ground cover and some little purple daisy’s.

Isis Cherry Tomato

The re-purposed planter

The celery root will be going to work with me tomorrow to add some visual appeal to some of our office planters which I am resurrecting (the poor plants are totally root-bound, and have used all of the nutrients from the soil). I also purchased a nice park bench for the office entry garden (I will post a pic when it’s all done).

The rest of the garden is doing quite well, the avocados are still on their slow and steady growth. I had to remove some of the leaves from the ‘Little Seed that Could‘, as all of its energy was being channeled into 4 or 5 HUGE leaves, I am looking for a more robust growth (not airplane wings!).

As always, still perpetually planning on doing something with the ‘other‘ side of the garden, but, that can wait for a little while. Still shifting things around in the main patio container garden, so, for now, one project at a time.

Thank you Steve, they are delicious. I am sure that yours will be coming in soon, I just picked a couple more this morning and topped my cereal with them. It really is the simple treasures in life that oft times are the most rewarding, and these simple little strawberries, I find extremely rewarding.